To Mr. Bagwell s Ireland under the Tudors I am specially indebted for his narrative of the Tudor wars. To Mr. T. P. OC onnor I am specially indebted for the most vivid accounts of the famine and of the evictions, as well as for an improved insight into the Parnell Movement and of the doings which preceded it. Of part of those doings I was myself in some measure a witness, through my social connections with a circle of English politicians who were inclining to an I rish alliance. The annals of the Tudor wars are horrible and heartrending. But history cannot drop the veil over them. They long left their evil traces on I rish character and sentiment, explaining and extenuating some terrible things which ensued. Nor, in truth, have they become obsolete as warnings to us in general of the acts into which civilized nations may be betrayed when they make wars of conquest on those whom they deem barbarians. It seemed that a brief account of the recent land legislation for I reland might be useful to readers of an essay of this kind. I append one which has been prepared for me by my friend, Mr. Hugh J. Mc Cann, B.L., of the Dublin Bar. I ts author is in no way committed to any opinion expressed in the other part of the work.
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